Beyond Shade: UCLA Researchers Improve Radiant Cooling to Make Outdoor Temperatures Feel Cooler Led by Aaswath Raman, an associate professor of materials science and engineering, a team of UCLA researchers published a study featured as a cover story in Nature Sustainability on building a low-cost and scalable cooling structure using transparent and infrared-reflective surfaces and hydronic panels.
3D-Printed Magnetoelastic Smart Pen May Help Diagnose Parkinson’s The low-cost, self-powered pen was created by researchers led by Jun Chen, an associate professor of bioengineering. The team uses AI to analyze electrical signals from handwriting, both on surfaces and through movement in the air, to detect early signs of Parkinson’s disease.
Next Generation of Batteries May Get Lifespan Boost with Help from New UCLA Imaging Techniques Led by Yuzhang Li, an associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, researchers at the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA have developed a technique that allows for high-resolution imaging of lithium-metal batteries while they charge. The methodology may lead to better battery design and applications in other fields, such as biology.
Autonomous Detection of AI Hallucinations in Digital Pathology
The autonomous image-quality assessment tool developed by Aydogan Ozcan, a professor of electrical and computer engineering and bioengineering, and colleagues from other universities outperforms human experts in identifying potentially misleading tissue-image artifacts.
Do AI Systems Socially Interact the Same Way as Living Beings? A multidisciplinary team across the David Geffen School of Medicine and UCLA Samueli, including Weizhe Hong, a professor of neurobiology, biological chemistry and bioengineering, and Jonathan Kao, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering and computer science, finds parallels in neural patterns between biological brains and artificial intelligence.
Spray-On E-Tattoos Offer Brain Monitoring Breakthrough Developed by Ximin He, a professor of materials science and engineering, and other researchers, these printed, gel-free devices perform like traditional electroencephalograms while offering more comfort and wearability.
UCLA Chemical Engineer Joseph Peterson Receives NSF CAREER Award for Characterizing Polymer Deformation The five-year, $600,000 award will support Joseph Peterson, an assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, in developing a more complete method of interpreting how complex fluids with applications in everyday consumer goods and advanced materials respond to repeated cycles of stretching and compression.
UCLA Computer Scientist Aditya Grover Receives Top Early Career AI Award Aditya Grover, an assistant professor of computer science, has received the Computers and Thought Award from the International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence for his foundational contributions uniting deep generative models and reinforcement learning.
UCLA Materials Scientist Daniel Schwalbe-Koda Wins Second Collaborative AI Innovation Award For the second year in a row, assistant professor of materials science and engineering Daniel Schwalbe-Koda has won an award from the Scialog program. The $60,000 grant will support his research in understanding the limits of information gains in automated experimentation with hardware restrictions.
UCLA Samueli Students Earn 2025 Goldwater Scholarship Third-year bioengineering student Amelia Rodolf and second-year computer science student Edward Sun have won the nationally competitive award that honors undergraduate students who show exceptional promise as researchers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics
UCLA SAMUELI IN THE NEWS
AirTalk with Larry Mantle In the second segment of the NPR-affiliated radio program beginning at 29:18, Rajit Gadh, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and director of the UCLA Smart Grid Energy Research Center, comments on the state of utility-operated battery systems that store energy, including the different lines of research into improving the technology.
New Approach Enables Body to Engineer its Own Cells to Fight Cancer or Autoimmunity Yvonne Chen, a UCLA professor of microbiology, immunology & molecular genetics with a joint appointment in chemical and biomolecular engineering, comments on a new cancer immunotherapy study demonstrating, in animal models, that chimeric antigen receptor T cells could be produced in the body.
Breaking the Laws of Thermal Radiation Could Make Better Solar Cells
Aaswath Raman, an associate professor of materials science and engineering, comments on the potential of a new material that emits electromagnetic radiation much better than it absorbs it, breaking long-held thermodynamic rules of symmetry.
UCLA Electrical Engineering Alum Builds Impact through Innovation and Mentorship Jeffrey Tsou ’19, M.S. ’20, an applications engineer at Siemens EDA, blends technical leadership with a deep commitment to mentorship. As a UCLA student, he guided peers through MentorSEAS. He continues to support future engineers through alumni programs and industry outreach.
